Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials to make the light bulb. When none worked successfully, his assistant __36_, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”

Thomas Edison replied very __37_, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have _38__ a lot. We now know that there are two thousand materials which we cannot _39__ to make a good light bulb.”

If you learn from your mistakes, then you are _40__. If you learn from someone else’s mistakes, then you are a genius. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines __41__ daily and failure is nothing more than a few small __42_ repeated daily.

How __43_ the above lines are! Success takes __44_. We’ll make mistakes _45__ we do things in too much of a hurry. When we do not practice disciplines in life, we don’t build enough confidence to __46__ new and challenging tasks which are important and matter in life. Our confidence __47__ what we think of ourselves and whether we believe in ourselves. We are all born with exceptional __48__, but only a few really _49___ their true potentials and make efforts in life and the others just lead a(n) _50__ life. Do you want to be exceptional?

Success is a fruit which everyone wants to _51__, but it is not found everywhere and no one can __52_ it without serious efforts.

Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don’t will find a(n) _53__!

Success depends on previous __54__, and without it we will end in failure.

When you are __55__, please enjoy it and give your hand to others who want to accomplish something.                  

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Last time you said you felt nervously before exams. I know       
【小题1】__________________
the exam results are such important for students that most students
【小题2】 __________________
are nervous. My suggestion is you try to relax yourself.            
【小题3】__________________
In fact exams are an evaluation of your studies, so there is      
【小题4】__________________
no need to worry too much the results. I think it’s important     
【小题5】__________________
to take a right attitude. Only before you have made good         
【小题6】__________________
preparation for exams can you avoid suffering from the          
【小题7】 __________________
pressure of exams. You’d better go for a walk or to do           
【小题8】 __________________
some exercise before them. Besides, have enough sleep           
【小题9】__________________
can make you full of energy. The hot bath or a glass of hot       
【小题10】__________________
milk might help you have a sound sleep.

One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited 36  for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became  37 . When he saw a photograph booth (照相亭) nearby, he had  38 . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not  39  in the situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small photos that  40  even him.

He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photos and handed them to a  41  behind the desk in the booth. “ 42  you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously  43  someone, would you please give her this?” he said. He then  44  his office in Morrison Building,  45  that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good  46 ! He sat down with a smile.

His wife  47  those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks if she is married.

How are you with  48 ? One person calls it “wait training.” It seems that there is always something we are  49 . We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to complete school. We wait for someone to change his or her mind.

Patience is an important  50  of a happy and rewarding life.  51 , some things are worth waiting for.  52  presents many opportunities for wait training.

We can hate waiting,  53  it or even get good at it! But one thing is  54  --- we cannot avoid it. How is your  55  coming along?

Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits （半导体电路）．But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020, some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality （虚拟的永生）.

Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles （履历）. By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.

Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to micro sensors under your scalp（头皮） and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.

At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system — the Soul Reader — might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities （永生实体）. Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine．

For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortality would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.

1.The main idea of this passage is that _______．

A．human beings long for living forever

B．there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher

C．people might live forever as technology develops

D．the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance

2.According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be ______．

A．a new machine on which research measures have already been made

B．a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts and emotions

C．made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever

D．made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity

3.According to the writer, semblance of immortality is ______．

A．to be a reality sooner or later              B．far from certain

C．just an idea that couldn't t be realized at all    D．a fading hope

4.The meaning of the underlined word "revitalize" in the fourth paragraph is close to        .

A．make dead        B．make famous       C．make known       D．make active

根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。

1.Nowadays more and more foreign enterprises and companies are no longer relying on interviews for recruitment(招募). Years of studying interviewing has made it clear that it is not a very objective process. Personnel officers often hire the person they like best or even the one they think most physically attractive. Looking good is no guarantee of doing the job well.

2.To get a more objective view，many companies are also using psychological tests，to hire both for relatively routine job and for positions at senior levels of management. It is impossible to say how many employers use tests，but estimates of test sales in the U．K.for 2001 were over one million.

3.Recruitment can involve steps in two ways. Step 1 is always the same：job application. The company decides whether you might be suitable based on your qualifications and your previous job experience. Step 2 can be screening. A specific test is given at this stage to rule out those who might not be worth interviewing. Some large employers use tests—especially IQ based tests precisely to eliminate the unsuitable. Only those who pass Step 2 go to the interview. Step 2 can also be testing and interview combined. If the company thinks you might be suitable after looking at your application，they ask you to come to be tested and to be interviewed. It is seen very much as part of the same step.

4.Tests claim to be scientific and objective. A large body of research has shown that interviews by themselves are not very reliable as a method of selection. People's judgments are often very subjective：whether they like the look of someone counts for more than almost anything else. But reliable and valid tests can offer rapid and more objective information about would­be employees. If a candidate talks well in an interview but his test results suggest that he is a careless person who cannot concentrate，and employer is likely to think twice about hiring him.

5.Taking a serious test for a job is rather different from taking a game­like test. You can spend just a little time answering questions of that kind of test，and you can deny the answers and say they are not accurate. But you can not go to a serious test without enough preparation since you can not afford to be denied and eliminated again and again. What can you do to do justice to yourself in tests？Here are three tips：Understand，Analyze，Practice.